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Certified Lover Boy
Drake·Rating: 6.8
This album exists because Drake had nothing left to prove and everything left to protect. That combination produces the strangest records. For nearly a decade he had occupied the centre of rap without...
Big Fish Theory
Vince Staples·Rating: 8.7
No other West Coast album has sounded this hostile toward the West Coast sound. Big Fish Theory lands like Vince Staples showing up to a lowrider show in a Prius and daring anyone to say something abo...
Strictly Business
EPMD·Rating: 9.3
Two guys from Long Island split production costs fifty-fifty, cleared no samples, and recorded an album in their bedroom that became the business model for every independent rap crew that followed. Er...
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Wu-Tang Clan
Enter the Wu‐Tang (36 Chambers)
Hip-Hop
Rating: 10.0
A Tribe Called Quest
The Low End Theory
Hip-Hop
Rating: 10.0
Nas
Illmatic
East Coast Hip-Hop
Rating: 10.0
Kendrick Lamar
To Pimp a Butterfly
Conscious Rap
Rating: 10.0
Public Enemy
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Conscious Rap
Rating: 10.0
The Notorious B.I.G.
Life After Death
Hip-Hop
Rating: 9.8
Madvillain
Madvillainy
Hip-Hop
Rating: 9.7
Kendrick Lamar
good kid, m.A.A.d city
Hip-Hop
Rating: 9.7
